Presenting the 2016/17 programme to reporters on Tuesday, Cankarjev dom director general Uršula Cetinski said the events were selected in a bid to offer a different view of life to its audiences, hence the season's motto A Different View.

Running between January and April, the Tolstoy, a Truth Seeker festival will focus on the Russian writer's monumental works and his world view with the question of what Tolstoy can teach us today.

The festival's main event will be a theatrical adaptation of his novel War and Peace, put on in a co-production with the SNG Drama Ljubljana and MGL theatre companies and directed by France-based Romanian director Silviu Purcarete.

The dance season will be launched in early October by the Ballet National de Marseille with Bolero and Extremalism, choreographies by Emio Greco and Pietr C. Scholten.

The Silver subscription series will open with an act by unconventional US organist Cameron Carpenter, who is turning organ concerts into a spectacle of virtuosity.

The biggest annual draw, the Ljubljana International Film Festival will run between 9 and 20 November, paying tribute to Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski and focusing on Romanian cinematography.

Cankarjev dom will also host the 11th International Festival of Mountain Film in February, to be followed in March by the 19th Festival of Documentary Film.

The Slovenian Book Fair, between 23 and 27 November, will have Italy as the guest country. The same month will also see the 12th Slovenian Biennial of Illustration.

Treats for music lovers in November include Mexico's National Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Carlos Miguel Prieto and the Russian Patriarchate Choir of Moscow.

The Maribor SNG ballet ensemble and orchestra will make a guest appearance in December with a ballet spectacle based on motifs of Alexander Pushkin's Eugene Onegin.

Touted as the highlight of the Christmas season is Between City and Country, a show by Contemporary Vietnamese Circus which fuses dance elements with traditional circus acts.

Announced for the spring is a retrospective exhibition of photographs by Robert Capa, a Hungarian war photographer who lost his life in 1954 in Vietnam. The show will be accompanied by debates and talks on war reporting and photojournalism.

The 58th Ljubljana Jazz Festival in June will be followed in September next year by the 4th European Jazz Conference, bringing together jazz experts from around the world.